Chapter 37 – Rescue Operation (5)
An offshore structure built on a small rocky island floating in the sea. This is the only maritime prison in Korea.
Four women were meeting in the prison’s main building when the ferry had just departed from the port. One of them says
“Look at this, look at this.”
She is in her late 20s, and like Sophia, she is a Slavic beauty.
Despite her outstanding appearance, she exudes an aura that is difficult to approach. That feeling is more like the poison of a puffer fish than the thorns of a rose.
It is not that you are born with poison, but what you eat in the process of living is accumulated as poison in your body.
She was born in Moscow, and until she was imprisoned in a maritime prison in Korea, this woman has always been parasitically close to her danger.
Because her risk came with money, and she knew how to avoid risk with her money in her belly.
She had enough of the men she was fascinated by, or the men she frightened, to load into her truck, and if she handled each according to her recipe, she would throw her body into danger instead of her.
Her name is Sasha. She leads the largest force among the West Wing prisoners.
“It’s good that the rescue team is coming. I’m getting tired of this place too. But why did you do it your way?”
She is reprimanding Sophia.
Profit.
Sasha took out her cigarette and lit it.
She smoked it once, turned it off in the middle, twisted it, stored it, and smoked it again.
It’s an awkward behavior that doesn’t go well with her classy appearance, but now this maritime prison is a place where people can die over a cigarette.
“So you’re saying we’re all going to starve to death like this? You guys may have provisions, but we won’t last even a week.”
Instead of answering, Sasha let out a long puff of cigarette smoke.
A strange smile appeared on her lips and she flicked the butt on her finger. It means to speak one more time.
‘Damn it.’
Sophia hated Sasha terribly.
The two were once in a relationship between a brother and sister living away from home, and after a while, developed into a relationship between an employee and an employer. It wasn’t a very wholesome field, though.
It’s a common story.
A story about a wife who set foot on a foreign land with her hopes and ruins her life after being used by a compatriot who speaks the same language.
At first, she regarded Sasha as a respectable and grateful older sister who greeted her in the language of her hometown she missed and helped and took care of this and that, but that misunderstanding turned Sophia’s life upside down.
As a result, she is getting along with her in Kamppang. Well, it’s ironic that her life was saved thanks to that.
“I am not criticizing the negotiation itself. I’d rather do something than starve here. You should be commended for even fixing the communicator and finding the rescue team.”
Sasha came in front of Sophia.
“The question is, why did you go through it alone?”
Huwook-
Sasha blew out the smoke from her cigarette once more.
Seeing this, Se-young tried not to show off, but everyone in the room noticed that her throat was moving and her saliva was dripping.
“It is the pimp, not the prostitute, who sets the price. Why did you negotiate on your own?”
“Sometimes talk! I have nothing to do with you…”
Sasha’s foot dug between Sophia’s crotch as she sat in her chair.
“You must have seen what kind of trouble the girls get caught secretly bargaining with customers in my store?”
Sasa’s feet blatantly teased Sophia’s genitals.
“Stop it!”
Sophia raised her head and screamed, but she couldn’t meet her eyes for long with the smiling Sasha.
Because of the eyes
Even years after she had sorted out her relationship with Sasha, her eyes on Sophia were unchanging.
Eyes that judge the price of goods.
Sophia was horrified by the way she looked at her.
“Sasha, are you going to fight for rank in this situation?”
Seyoung said.
“Is there anything more important than rank on this floor? Money? It’s nothing.”
Sasha reached out and squeezed her hand between Sophia’s crotch.
“Let go!”
“Even if you roll this well, it’s money. But a seat is hard to buy even with money. It is more difficult to keep.”
Sasha said, suppressing Sophia’s defiance.
“What would you all think if there was a bitch who left me at a time like this to complete a deal that would cost everyone’s life back and forth?”
Sasha thrust her face into Sophia.
“It is always me who sets the price. I always make decisions.”
Sasha stretches out her long fingers and pokes Sophia in the chest.
“…I see.”
She retracted her finger from Sophia, who nodded reluctantly.
“It doesn’t make sense.”
Sasha sighed as she looked at the nail art that was almost being erased.
“What are you doing with your nails in the yard where the world is cut off?”
Said the woman, sitting in her chair and looking up at her ceiling with her feet raised on her table.
The name tag on her clothes has the name Hajisu written on it.
There aren’t many people she leads, but no one in her floating prison, not even Sasha, treats her badly.
The reason is simple.
“Why don’t you exercise instead? Shouldn’t you be able to take care of your own body now? The days of chinking on her shoulders to use her fists are over.”
Every time she touched her feet on her table, her crisp, vertically-cleaved abs were revealed. It is also not common to have wide shoulders and arm muscles that stand out with arms crossed.
In a situation where the control of the law collapses and men cannot rely on force, such primitive power shines through even in women.
Sasha felt the nuance of Jisoo’s words strangely turn her back on her, so she sighed, but she held it in.
She is originally an optimistic character, Jisoo, but her eyes were full of annoyance.
“Her muscles are getting smaller day by day.”
Jisoo said while stroking her stomach.
No matter how much she tries to manage it, she ends up having to let out her muscles in situations where what goes into her mouth is poor.
If you exercise there, you will get hungry faster.
As a woman who has devoted her whole life to her workouts, this situation is bound to make her irritated down her throat.
“So, did you say that the man’s name was Seo Jin-soo? Tell me in detail what you know. He is my first impression, and I like his mannerisms and trivial things, so whatever.”
Said Sasha.
“I couldn’t even have a long conversation in the first place.”
“I will make the judgment, so you can solve it as you know.”
In the end, Sophia told everything she knew at all.
When the story of 200,000 cans of beer came out, everyone in the room widened their eyes.
* * *
Shoot ah-
The view of the sea reflected on the big screen feels refreshing just by looking at it.
There is virtually no danger until all the infectious agents in the ship are removed and they arrive on the island.
In response to my request to enjoy a wide view of the sea with the view of a single surveillance drone, the central control room became a navigation VR experience center.
Artemis sees all her squadmates and drones anyway, so it’s okay to indulge in this extravagance.
The endless horizon under the sunlight, the waves crashing against the ship, and the sound of them crashing.
Artemis even manipulated the air circulation device on the ceiling to provide an experience close to a real 4D cinema.
I am very grateful for the heart that tries to understand human longing for nature.
Looking at the sea like that, a question suddenly came to my mind.
“The fact that the survivors in the maritime prison are safe so far, does that mean that the danger of the infected cannot cross the sea?”
[You can see it that way.]
“Then isn’t it strange? Where’d all the navy go? I don’t understand why there are no forces resisting by moving the base to the sea.”
[Do you want me to keep making the answer I hate the most?]
Artemis hesitated for a moment before speaking.
[I can’t judge due to lack of information.]
She said as if she really didn’t like it.
After some time, we reached our destination.
“See.”
The outline of the maritime prison is revealed on the screen.
An artificial village on the sea built for the purpose of being thoroughly isolated from Korean society.
A gloomy landscape filled with inorganic concrete and dark gray rocks unfolded.
Rock and concrete.
“Everywhere you look, it’s gray, gray, and gray again.”
Sometimes pink is mixed in, though.
Uh?
“Wait, Pink?”
When the screen was enlarged by adjusting the touch panel, an unexpected scene unfolded.
At the edge of the rocky outskirts of the Maritime Prison, naked women were found with no strings attached.
It seems that he was bathing in sea water.
If you zoom in a bit more, you can see the condition clearly.
I had not eaten properly for a long time, so my stomach was thin and my body was lifeless.
The washing action is powerless, and there is no expression on the face.
Are you trying to preserve your final dignity as a human being while slowly dying from not being able to eat or drink? They were washing away even the dirt from their bodies with the cold sea water.
If it was a spa or hot spring, they would have chatted with their lips moving without a break, but their mouths are tightly shut.
As we got closer, one of the women pointed her finger at us, as if she had noticed this way.
Soon after, Burinake runs away. Rather than not wanting to see her naked body, she seemed to be full of fear.
At the end of the running road, you can see the dingy main gate of the marine prison.
Upon entering the island’s pier, the navigation computer automatically completed docking. Because it was connected to the island’s docking system.
[Disembarks.]
With Rose’s words, the rescue team entered the island in an orderly manner.
It was not a combat area anymore, and he had to deal with human prisoners, so it was after returning to normal communication.
“The situation here is unreasonable.”
Kwajik.
When one of the security robots stepped on something, it crumbled. It was the bone of a small beast.
[It’s a cat bone. There are traces of flesh being removed with tools.]
Artemis, who did the skeletal analysis, informed me.
Not men, women eat cats…
“Is the food situation worse than expected?”
The roads leading up from the dock to the marine prison were full of filth. It’s not just all sorts of trash and animal and fish bones.
Human feces were everywhere.
“There must be a strong stench at the site.”
I send my condolences to Rose, who is passing by there with human sense organs.
“Did you go to the toilet outside because you couldn’t use the bathroom?”
[Maybe the desalination device is broken, or there is no one to operate it. Then you won’t be able to waste precious water on toilet water.]
Most likely, maintenance of the desalination unit was performed by company technicians who came from outside on a regular basis. If it breaks…
“The chances of a fight here are very low. Stay vigilant and walk around the filth. There is no need to step on it unnecessarily.”
At my command, the guard robots scattered the sword-like ranks and skillfully avoided the filth.
To lead the prisoners, it is better to show only a clean and strong appearance. If you walk around leaving poop footprints, you’ll wake up.
After walking for a few minutes, the entrance to the marine prison appeared. In front of him, director Lee Se-young, who had been contacted in advance, Sophie, and a woman he had never seen before were waiting.
[This is Lee Se-young, the prison warden. Thank you so much for your help in a difficult situation.]
Seyoung on the other side of the screen greeted the rescue team with polite respect. The stiff tone during communication must have been because it was an emergency radio situation.
[Who are the other two?]
Rose asked.
[This is Sasha, the west wing convict representative, and Sophia, the east wing convict representative. There are many more factions besides these, but you only need to know these two right now.]
No matter what you say about the prisoner representative, in the end, it’s just a large crowd.
It was a bizarre situation where the prison warden introduced the host to the visitors, but the sad reality is that you can’t just laugh.
A woman named Sasha smiled from a distance, but her face hardened as she saw the rescue team.
Then he glared at Sophia next to her. What she thought was an ordinary rescue team made up of human males. She seems to be reprimanding me why didn’t she say this.
Sophia’s reaction to him was ‘what should I do?’ Itself.
[Chief Lee Se-young, we head to the government building. Would you like to follow me?]
After seeing the two prisoners, Rose looked back at Se-young and said,
‘There are things I need to secure first when I land at the maritime prison.’
She was faithful to her mission I had given her beforehand.
[Please direct to the chief’s office and prisoner archives.]
